You are cordially invited to see and listen to one of the most influential speakers regarding human sex trafficking in the world, Mrs. Lisa Williams. The Humanities Department and Students Without Borders is proud to be bringing back Lisa Williams to GHC for the 5th consecutive year.
Lisa Williams is an international heroine in her innovative efforts to counter commercial child sex trafficking and one of the nation’s foremost experts on human sex trafficking. She has assisted and helped to secure and spare the lives of over 200 American girls and 14 boys.
In 2015, the award-winning 2015 CNN Special Report, Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking featured Circle of Friends and the Living Water for Girls program. Through this documentary, Lisa and the young ladies from the Living Water for Girls and Learning Resource Center programs spoke to people across the world about the perils of America’s domestic human trafficking epidemic, survivorship and their hope for a better tomorrow.
On January 11, 2015, Williams established and galvanized the I AM Rachel movement; a collaborative of 400 lawmakers, colleges, survivor voices, houses of worship, community leaders, volunteers and Rachel herself to fight for Safe Harbor/Rachel’s Law Act to become law. On May 5, 2015, Safe Harbor/Rachel’s Law Act was signed into law by Governor Deal; and the constitutional amendment, Senate Resolution 7, to secure the funding for the essential services required to heal broken bodies, minds and spirits, overwhelmingly passed with more than 83%- 3,000,000 Georgians voting “YES” on November 8, 2016. On January 1, 2017, Rachel’s Law became law. Rachel’s Law is the first safe harbor law in America named in honor of a sex trafficking survivor. Rachel a proud graduate of the Living Water Learning Resource Center, is that survivor.
If you are an instructor, please consider offering Extra Credit to your students who attend this event. If you teach a class at 2:00 on Monday/Wednesday, please consider allowing your class to be held in the Student Center as Mrs. Williams’ presentation is powerful and transforming. Her message needs to be heard and awareness needs to be spread on the topic of Human Sex Trafficking – as this is an epidemic not confined to just Atlanta or international cities, but suburbs such as Rome, Cartersville, Marietta, Dallas and Douglasville, our GHC homes in the NW Georgia community as well.
Please join us on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 2:00 PM in the Cartersville Student Center Rooms 102 A & B. The presentation will last approximately 1 hour with a reception immediately following.
For more information on Lisa Williams and The Circle of Friends/Living Water for Girls Initiative, please visit http://www.cofcl.org